In recent years, fingerprint scanners have become almost ubiquitous when it comes to high-end (and even mid-end, or more modest) smartphones.

While some handsets - like the iPhone 7 or HTC U11 - feature fingerprint scanners on the front, there's a large number of important phones that have their scanners on the back - Samsung Galaxy S8, Google Pixel, LG G6, and so on. As you may know, handsets made by OnePlus fall into the latter category - they've always had fingerprint scanners on the front. And we now know that this won't change with the upcoming OnePlus 5.

OnePlus CEO and co-founder Pete Lau recently confirmed that the OnePlus 5 would keep its fingerprint scanner on the front - just like the OnePlus 3T and its predecessors. The confirmation came via Weibo (China's largest microblogging platform), while Liu Zuotu was answering questions about the OnePlus 5. Unfortunately, it looks like this is the only valuable (and previously unknown) detail that the CEO was able to share.

Update: OnePlus also just confirmed that the OnePlus 5 will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor - no surprise here. Thanks to the Snapdragon 835 (also used inside flagships like Samsung's Galaxy S8), the new handset should, according to OnePlus, offer a "flawlessly smooth performance."

If you're interested in the OnePlus 5, do you think it's good news that the handset will have its fingerprint scanner on the front? Or maybe you don't care that much about where the scanner is situated? Let us know in the comments below!

posted on May 24, 2017, 11:55 AM 3

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posted on May 24, 2017, 12:51 PM 2

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Sometimes the old "if it ain't broke don't fix it" attitude can be a good thing. I know there are many people who didn't like that the Galaxy S8 fingerprint scanner was on the back. And look at what happened to HTC when they diverged from their popular design featured on the M8.

posted on May 24, 2017, 5:48 PM 0

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Lol iPhone 8. Good one. Those leaked prototypes are nasty looking as hell. You don't have to worry though. If Apple can get away with releasing only the 7s with a fancy jet colour, they will.
They don't spend money on you isheep. Look at the iPad 10.5 just leaked to get an idea of the farthest Apple would go from handset to handset.

posted on May 24, 2017, 11:54 AM 8

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posted on May 24, 2017, 1:26 PM 0

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the iphone 8 design are ugly? get out of here... I hate apple and can't stand how far their heads up their butts but i can't say it's ugly. Now whats going to be said is they end up going same old designs for the 7s/7s+ Those things look like a brick

posted on May 24, 2017, 11:20 AM 4

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posted on May 24, 2017, 11:40 AM 1

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See if you knew what you were talking about, you wouldn't look so dumb. Those were app speed tests, not benchmarks so impossible to cheat. Also all Oneplus did was remove the thermal throttling for their "cheating" wow congratulations, the phone doesn't even throttle in the first place so scores didn't change. Go educate yourself before posting ridiculous crap

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